Speaker
Thorsten Renk
(University of Jyväskylä)
Description
High P_T measurements of hard hadrons or jets at RHIC and LHC appear contradictory and in some cases counter-intuitive, but upon closer investigation they represent a coherent picture of jet-medium interaction physics which can be established with systematic comparisons of models against a large body of data. This picture is consistent with a perturbative QCD mechanism and does not require exotic assumptions. I outline how several key measurements each partially constrain shower-medium interaction physics and how from the sum of those the outlines of the mechanism of jet quenching can be deduced. I then explain how current jet results from LHC can be naturally understood in this picture and summarize the remaining open issues.
Primary author
Thorsten Renk
(University of Jyväskylä)
